Month: March 2020

Wednesday, April 1st

April Fool’s Day!

Today is April Fool’s Day. I would love it if you sent a video of you telling a Joke! I’ll give you bonus points if you can tell a joke in English!

Writing

This week we are reading about an auth. So this week’s Writing assignment, is to Write about your  favorite Author. Here is what you will be graded upon

  • Paragraph one
    • You must tell me the name of the Author.
    • Tell me about the Author,
      • Where are they from
      • When / why the started to write.
      • Other information.
  • Paragraph two
    • You must tell me some of the books they have written.
    • You must tell me what one of those books is about
    • You must tell me why you like that book.
  • Paragraph three
    • You must tell me about the fame
      • Did the get awards? Which ones?
      • Was a movie it tv show made of the it book?
      • Are they famous?
  • All paragraphs will be checked for
    • Pronoun use
    • Possessives use
    • Spelling
    • Subject verb agreement.

The writing first draft is due on Monday, Final Draft is due on Friday April 8th.

Tuesday, March 31st

Today’s story is called Debra Ellis: Writing Books that Help Children. Please listen along, and read it back to me. The files are in the “02 Tuesday” folder.

This week’s Grammar is Possessive Pronouns & Possessive Adjectives

Some students that cannot get into education.com are not seeing the grammar lessons on that website. I will poste them over this week on my Youku account. But you may access them here.

Monday, March 30

We are going into Week 7 of have students, and In know it isn’t as fun as classroom students but It want to thank all of you for you had work.

Raz-Kids Announcements

I want to start positive and announce the great work everyone has been doing. We have a few Grade 5 Reading level students now, which is Amazing. I have bolded the it names below.

  • Elsa Ling reached Level Z
  • Peter Liu reached Level Z
  • Farrel Chen reached Level Y
  • Gordon Zhang reached Level I
  • Kevin Zheng reached Level O
  • Kevin Zheng had 30 Perfect Quizzes
  • Christina Ma had 16 Perfect Quizzes
  • Gordon Zhang had 9 Perfect Quizzes
  • Farrel Chen had 7 Perfect Quizzes
  • Elsa Ling had 7 Perfect Quizzes
  • Alex Sun had 6 Perfect Quizzes
  • Felix Yang had 6 Perfect Quizzes
  • Silver Zhang had 6 Perfect Quizzes
  • Peter Liu had 5 Perfect Quizzes
  • Zack Deng had 4 Perfect Quizzes
  • George Wang had 4 Perfect Quizzes.
  • Amy Chen had 3 Perfect Quizzes
  • Jack Que had 2 Perfect Quizzes
  • Daniel Du had a Perfect Quiz
  • Bella Han has a Perfect Quiz
  • Ada Liu had a Perfect Quiz
  • Jack Yu had a Perfect Quiz

Answers

New Virtual Classroom Features.

Starting this week we have a digital Class library. If you find yourself unable to use Raz Kids please use the library. Week you do, you will been to send me a direct message with the name of the book you read, if you want it counted.

I will be placing all of the week’s files into a folder usable like the library. There is and Education folder in it if you cannot get into Education.com you may use that.

This week’s work

I need to hear each of you Reading to me twice a week. This helps me judge your fluency practice. I ASK for the weekly story and a Raz Kids, but I will be happy with any reading.

I would like everyone to do at least 1 Quiz on Raz-Kids this week. I will count it as a Reading comprehension Quiz. (If you do more than 1 I will average the scores). If You cannot get into Raz Kids I will place 3 books and their Quizzes in the “Suggested Reading” Folder.

Today we will be working on the newest Wimpy Kids section. Please find it in the “01 Monday” Folder

Thursday, March 25

Science

Today for Science there is 3 things I want you to do:

  • First please send me pictures of your plants.
  • 2nd read some of the passages in the “Life” section in Science Raz – Kids.
  • 3rd please watch the video called photosynthesis ( follow my video to see where)

Vocabulary

Please look over the words on Monday’s worksheet, then try the vocabulary page below.

BONUS POINTS if you try the digital quiz and send me a picture of your score directly on WeChat.

The digital quiz is here.

Wednesday March 25th

Since it is the Anti-bullying month in the APS. I am assigning you to watch the Stop Bullying now videos. You may watch any that you wish.

After you have watched, I want you to choose 1 character from the video and write to them a letter. Give them advice about how to handle their problems.

This is due on Monday, March 30th.

Here is the cast

Notes about Writing

Please remember that a paragraph has the following parts

  • Opening sentence ( Topic Sentence)
  • Details
  • Details
  • Details
  • Closing sentence

The Opening sentence will tell everyone what you are writing about.

Details explain about the topic.

The closing sentence restates the opening. It may also finish the thought started in the opening sentence.

When you have written what you can, have someone proofread it. Proofreaders may use the code below to help you fix it.

Look over the mistakes or suggestions and rewrite it. DO NOT ERASE AND FIX. You will need to know where you started to check your mistakes later.

When you have fixed and rewritten what you can, have someone proofread it again. If you are happy with the writing, you may write your final draft. If you are not happy, rewrite it again and fix it again.

Final drafts are graded, nothing else. So if you do not have your work proofread by someone, your chances are not as good for a good score as people who had written more than 1 draft.

Proofreading code